Bill Maher: Red Bull did in Tsarnaevs

Bill Maher mocked the suspected Boston marathon bombers on Friday, saying they were so amateurish and incompetent that they don’t merit being called enemy combatants.

“Enemy combatant? I’m not sure we should be trying them as an adult… Why call every murderer an enemy combatant, it’s like calling everyone in porn a porn star – it just cheapens it for the real artists. Just the term enemy combatant romanticizes them too much,” Maher said on HBO “Real Time.”

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Authorities say that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother Tamerlan, 26, are behind last month’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. Tamerlan was killed in a police pursuit. Dzhokhar is charged in connection with the bombings, but some conservatives have said they want him to be held as an enemy combatant.

“Ever since the sh-t went down in Boston, all the usual suspects on the right have been screeching about how Dzhokhar needs to be held as an enemy combatant and how Obama doesn’t get it about fighting terrorism. No, you don’t get it,” Maher said on “Real Time.” “We’re not dealing with evil-genius [James] Bond villains here. We caught them because he and his brother pulled their getaway car over to make a pit-stop for Red Bull.”

Earlier, Maher said: “New rule: Stop worrying that our justice system can’t be trusted to try this low-life as a common criminal. Come on, this is the USA – we’re good at putting people in prison. We have a higher incarceration rate than Iran, or China, or for that matter every other country on earth.”

“We’re also pretty at executing people. Ninety percent of the places in the world don’t, but we do. So yes, I’m afraid that little Dzhokhar f-cked with the wrong peace-loving Christian people.”